If you’re curious or interested in getting involved in the Ubuntu community, “Ubuntu Open Week” begins tonight. It’s “a week of IRC tutorials and sessions designed to encourage more and more people to join our diverse community”. More information is here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek
The times in the calendar are UTC, so just add 8 hours for China. For example, the first session on Monday on the “Ubuntu Desktop Team – Sebastien Bacher” at 15:00 UTC will actually occur at 23:00 tonight, Beijing time. Of notable interest is the “Ask Mark” session on Tuesday, featuring Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth.
By the way, I plan on attending some of the earlier-in-the-evening sessions, but once it gets too late I’ll just let my IRC client log the rest of them while I’m sleeping. 😉